"Interactives" provides educators and students with strategies, content, and activities that can enhance and improve students' skills in a variety of curricular areas.
This site has interactive websites for Math, Science, Language Arts, History & Art - most activities are for 5-12 however there are a couple for all grades.
Games to Make is a free resource for curriculum-based games to use mainly
with primary students. Print ready-to-use Bingo cards for CVC words, a
variety of activities for Word Walls (vocabulary building), including sight
words, consonant sounds and rhyming words.
Web: http://www.kellyskindergarten.com/Games/
GamestoMake/games_to_make.htm
Students and teachers alike will love Quintura Kids visual search cloud.
Take the free tour to learn how to work with this search tool. Search using
the preset categories in the search cloud, click a road sign on the home page
with newly added topics or type a word into the keyword search box. A
minus sign lets you subtract a subtopic from your keyword search to refine
results. The search cloud can also be embedded in your personal Web page
using the code provided when you click the Embed button.
Web: http://www.quinturakids.com/
Sign up for Webspiration, an online collaborative visual thinking
and authoring tool from Inspiration. Use Webspiration to capture ideas,
organize information, diagram processes and create clear, concise written
documents. New features let users create personal templates, set up their
own collaboration groups and distribute documents to other Webspiration
users. Get anywhere, anytime access for free during the public beta, after
which the tool will be offered as a subscription service.
Web: http://www.mywebspiration.com/
Language Arts/reading
Focus on research-based reading strategies with Into the Book, a
reading comprehension resource for K–4 students and teachers. The
resource addresses eight strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making
Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating
and Synthesizing. Students can view the 15-minute videos and try the
online interactive activities. “Behind the Lesson” provides information and
teaching resources for each strategy. View the 10-minute professional
development videos and explore the Web site for lesson plans, video and
audio clips and more.
Web: http://reading.ecb.org/teacher/index.html
Try the free Seussville Story Maker to create your own storyboard using
the characters from Horton Hears a Who! Other interactive games can be
found by clicking the link to the Playground at the bottom of the Story
Maker page.
Web: http://www.seussville.com/games/storymaker/story_maker.html
Math:
Print these free nets (3-D shapes) from SEN Teacher and create 3-D
models to reinforce geometry concepts. Click the Printables tab for other
free special needs teaching resources.
Web: http://www.senteacher.org/wk/3dshape.php
History/SS:
Around the World in 72 Days is the story of the record-breaking journey
of journalist Nellie Bly, whose travel around the world began on November
14, 1889. The Web site for this American Experience program from PBS
includes a free transcript of the film along with a free, online Teacher
Guide, Special Features, Maps and a People and Events section.
Web: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/world/
Investigate George Washington: A National Treasure, a classroom
activity from the Smithsonian Institution. The detailed Teacher Guide
includes lesson plans and activities that can be downloaded free of charge
to guide this Web exploration of our first president.
Web: http://www.georgewashington.si.edu/kids/teacherguide.html
Plus: Follow the clues in the free interactive Portrait for Kids and help solve
a make-believe mystery of the half-finished portrait of George Washington.
Click on the Kids tab at the top of the National Treasure activity to begin
the adventure.
Web: http://www.georgewashington.si.edu/kids/portrait.html
Wayback: U.S. History for Kids is an interactive history resource
produced by PBS’s American Experience. Explore the Summer Vacation
topic and discover the history of car camping, learn more about the early
days of summer camp and investigate some of America’s favorite vacation
spots. Students can share their summer experience with the free email
postcard at http://pbskids.org/wayback/summer/postcard/.
Web: http://pbskids.org/wayback/summer/index.html
First sites for all classes:
"Interactives" provides educators and students with strategies, content, and activities that can enhance and improve students' skills in a variety of curricular areas.
This site has interactive websites for Math, Science, Language Arts, History & Art - most activities are for 5-12 however there are a couple for all grades.
http://www.learner.org/interactives/
Games to Make is a free resource for curriculum-based games to use mainly
with primary students. Print ready-to-use Bingo cards for CVC words, a
variety of activities for Word Walls (vocabulary building), including sight
words, consonant sounds and rhyming words.
Web: http://www.kellyskindergarten.com/Games/
GamestoMake/games_to_make.htm
Students and teachers alike will love Quintura Kids visual search cloud.
Take the free tour to learn how to work with this search tool. Search using
the preset categories in the search cloud, click a road sign on the home page
with newly added topics or type a word into the keyword search box. A
minus sign lets you subtract a subtopic from your keyword search to refine
results. The search cloud can also be embedded in your personal Web page
using the code provided when you click the Embed button.
Web: http://www.quinturakids.com/
Sign up for Webspiration, an online collaborative visual thinking
and authoring tool from Inspiration. Use Webspiration to capture ideas,
organize information, diagram processes and create clear, concise written
documents. New features let users create personal templates, set up their
own collaboration groups and distribute documents to other Webspiration
users. Get anywhere, anytime access for free during the public beta, after
which the tool will be offered as a subscription service.
Web: http://www.mywebspiration.com/
Language Arts/reading
Focus on research-based reading strategies with Into the Book, a
reading comprehension resource for K–4 students and teachers. The
resource addresses eight strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making
Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating
and Synthesizing. Students can view the 15-minute videos and try the
online interactive activities. “Behind the Lesson” provides information and
teaching resources for each strategy. View the 10-minute professional
development videos and explore the Web site for lesson plans, video and
audio clips and more.
Web: http://reading.ecb.org/teacher/index.html
Try the free Seussville Story Maker to create your own storyboard using
the characters from Horton Hears a Who! Other interactive games can be
found by clicking the link to the Playground at the bottom of the Story
Maker page.
Web: http://www.seussville.com/games/storymaker/story_maker.html
Math:
Print these free nets (3-D shapes) from SEN Teacher and create 3-D
models to reinforce geometry concepts. Click the Printables tab for other
free special needs teaching resources.
Web: http://www.senteacher.org/wk/3dshape.php
History/SS:
Around the World in 72 Days is the story of the record-breaking journey
of journalist Nellie Bly, whose travel around the world began on November
14, 1889. The Web site for this American Experience program from PBS
includes a free transcript of the film along with a free, online Teacher
Guide, Special Features, Maps and a People and Events section.
Web: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/world/
Investigate George Washington: A National Treasure, a classroom
activity from the Smithsonian Institution. The detailed Teacher Guide
includes lesson plans and activities that can be downloaded free of charge
to guide this Web exploration of our first president.
Web: http://www.georgewashington.si.edu/kids/teacherguide.html
Plus: Follow the clues in the free interactive Portrait for Kids and help solve
a make-believe mystery of the half-finished portrait of George Washington.
Click on the Kids tab at the top of the National Treasure activity to begin
the adventure.
Web: http://www.georgewashington.si.edu/kids/portrait.html
Wayback: U.S. History for Kids is an interactive history resource
produced by PBS’s American Experience. Explore the Summer Vacation
topic and discover the history of car camping, learn more about the early
days of summer camp and investigate some of America’s favorite vacation
spots. Students can share their summer experience with the free email
postcard at http://pbskids.org/wayback/summer/postcard/.
Web: http://pbskids.org/wayback/summer/index.html